​​Course descriptions of my teaching experience to date:

 

Spring/Summer 2023

Fleming College

Case Management & Service Coordination

This course focuses on case management skills used in the field of social service work and addiction and mental health. Students learn to identify strengths, resources and challenges of individuals, families, group and communities to assist them in achieving their goals. Students learn to discern how case management is related to screening, assessment and treatment planning and demonstrate the ability to collaborate and advocate for appropriate resources to assist individuals, families, group and communities. Through case simulation, students assume the role and responsibilities of a case manager which include information gathering, assessment, intake interviewing, service planning, case monitoring, documentation, advocacy and being a social change agent.

 

Documentation & Record Keeping

Students learn to record all client and related professional interactions in an objective, culturally competent and accurate manner that reflects organizational protocols, established regulatory practices and record keeping guidelines. Through practical application, students document all interventions clearly, accurately, and concisely using a strength-based framework. Students learn to understand how to obtain informed consent and boundaries of confidentiality in exchanging information.

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Fall 2023

Fleming College

Family & Social Support

This course examines the impact of an individual’s mental health and substance use in relation to their family and their social support system. Emphasis is placed on family development, interactions, structure, and roles within the family, and long-term effects of mental health and substance use issues on the family structure. Students learn why and how family and social supports are an integral part of an individual’s capacity to develop balanced and healthy relationships. Contemporary theories are applied to case studies of families with mental health and substance use related issues, recognizing the unique role of personal and family relationships in promoting recovery and well-being.

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Trent University

Feminist Informed Trauma Practice

Feminist-Informed Trauma Practice explores feminist theories, assessment, and intervention, and an integrated trauma model to work with trauma survivors. Analysis of intersectionality, the feminization of poverty, violence against women, racialized violence, children who witness violence, the construction of masculine violence as a cultural norm, and violence within same-sex couples are examined.

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Winter 2024

Fleming College

Counselling Skill & Interventions

This course provides students with an overview of introductory theories and skills used in the helping profession. As a foundation for the next two levels of counselling-specific courses, students are introduced to a range of collaborative practices and communication techniques with an emphasis on the person centered approach. Students learn to apply a strength based perspective that focuses on strengths, supports, resilience, capacity for personal responsibility, self-advocacy and positive change. Additionally, students evaluate their own strengths and challenges that impact upon their roles in the helping profession through an exploration of self and an understanding of transference and countertransference. Students are supported in demonstrating practical applications of skills through experiential activities.

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Trent University

Skills for Helping Professions (workshop facilitator)

Building on foundations of social work theory, knowledge, ethics, and skills, this course introduces processes of change across micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice from an anti-oppressive practice framework. This course introduces the emotional, intellectual, and professional/personal characteristics required for the practice of social work and other helping professions.

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Spring/Summer 2024

Trent University

Feminist Informed Trauma Practice

​Course description as above.​

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Fall 2024

Trent University

​Feminist Informed Trauma Practice

Course description as above.

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Alternative Theories of Human Behaviour in the Social Environment (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

Working from micro to macro level of practice, students develop a critical understanding of human behaviour in the social environment. Students review and critique a range of dominant theories of behaviour, and a variety of alternative theories that are more inclusive and structural. Students develop academic writing and reading skills.

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Winter 2025

Trent University

​Social Work and Social Policy

This required course provides students with an overview of social policy in Canada and its role in social work practice, and anti-oppressive changed-oriented practice in particular. Students will review historical policy processes and orientations to social welfare and consider their relevance in the contemporary social welfare context.

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Spring/Summer 2025

Trent University

​Feminist Informed Trauma Practice

Course description as above.​